| The Work Connection: The Role of Social Security in British Economic Regulation Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Stewart, J. (Author), Grover, Chris (Author), Loparo, Kenneth A. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1349413305 ISBN-13: 9781349413300 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Insurance - General - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations |
| Dewey: 368.400 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.70 lbs) 233 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The authors use regulation to explain the antecedents to current welfare developments in Britain. From discussion of the 'Speenhamland System', the struggle for Family Allowance and a National Minimum Wage, they show how first a Conservative government in the 1970s, and more recently 'New Labour', have used in-work benefits so that today they have become the preferred instrument of intervention in the labour market for setting wages. The authors discuss the ways in which these measures - the new deals for lone parents and young people and the working family tax credit - address issues of child poverty and the adequacy of incomes, and how far they are disciplining devices to encourage a new moral order, supportive of family life. |